GREAT ARTIFICIAL LAKE
"POOL OF THE BAD FAIRY" The greatest artificial lake in Ireland is to bo built to provide Dublin with extra water, power and light. Dublin has been expanding and people in new houses on higher ground find difficulty in obtaining water through the decreased pressure. In the wilds of tho Wicklow mountains the ]?iver LifFey runs over a fall and down a slope into a pool, which legend has called Poulaphouca, the pool of the littlo bad fairy. The slope is to be cut away so that tho sheer drop of the water will bo doubled to provide the power. A valley three times the sizo of Phoenix Park in Dublin is to be dammed and flooded to make an artificial lake 6000 acres iji extent. One of the finest mountain roads in Ireland, running from Poulaphouca across Wicklow Gap to Glondaloiigh, is to be rebuilt for 100 miles. Tho scheme will cost about £.'1,000,000 and will take about four years to complete.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22498, 15 August 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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